| Heading: |
Prostate Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1811382 |
| UIN: |
HL8318 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4984 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Mott
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Lord Mott
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government following the joint statement released on 9 June by the British Association of Urological Surgeons and Prostate Cancer UK regarding the poor utility of the digital rectal examination as a test for prostate cancer, whether t |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-24 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
The Government is committed to ensuring that all patients with cancer, including prostate cancer, are diagnosed faster and with the best diagnostic approaches. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that devel... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |